Word: erection
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Some months ago, a tall, erect, blond, young man of severely military carriage and aristocratic mien, was invited to a garden party at one of the most sumptuous villas of which modern Rome can boast. There he was introduced to a slight, dark-eyed girl olive-skinned, graceful as a faun, warm with the lambent inner radiance of the Italian heart...
Hale old men with the bodies of boys, hale old men with the minds of children, grand seigneurs, curmudgeons in every condition of physical decay, Paunch, Thin-Shank, Webfoot Waddle-Duck, and erect, haughty old men with life's ensign still crimson in their cheeks, journeyed to the Apawamis Club in Rye N. C., to play in the annual U. S. Seniors golf tournament Among them were famed lawyers and financial figures, a retired rear admiral,* the president of a great insurance company?; they played, each according to his fashion, around the Apawamis course. There were inumerable prizes?...
...Marshall was a modest man, and it would not be in keeping with his desire nor with his life to erect an ornate structure as his last resting place...
...draught of death, men pray rashly, and implore with extravagant promises the mercy of the Deity. If Christ will deliver them out of their peril, they swear to burn every evening a tall candle before His Mother's shrine; if he will let their darling live, they will erect a church to his glory. The sea grows calm; disease leaves the wracked body. Men smile, and forthwith forget both their anguish and their vows. Not so Oscar E. Konkle, President of the Realty Sureties, Inc., of Manhattan...
Druggist E. F. Robinson of Dayton, Tenn., to one A. D. Fairbairn, promoter: "Mrs. Bryan has given full approval of our plans to erect the Bryan memorial university in Dayton and we will proceed immediately with the creation of a great national organization...